Great thanks this weekend to Joe McCord, Kirk Duncan and Mike Festcher. And to everyone that sent photos and info. It really is a team effort!

I'm told that at one point during the late afternoon we had more than 1,200 people on the live stream! Sorry not everybody could get in to watch it. When we get to Tri-Cities and we can use our equipment here at the station, everybody should get the feed. We'll have 10 cameras on the course, Mark Allen & Steve Montgomery calling the play-by-play, a non-stop broadcast all day long, and a network of servers that handle more than 4,000 simultaneous feeds during last year races in Tri-Cities!

Villwock took some air in that same turn where three boats flipped, but was able to pull the boat back down. Theoret's crew did a remarkable job to get the U-37 back together after the flip in Heat 2B.

It happened again in Heat 3A. The third flip in the same place on the course, coming through turn 2. This time, it was Mike Allen in U-1. Allen was able to spring the cockpit open and get out on his own power and stand on the deck waiting for the rescue crew to get their. He appears to be OK, but the boat was damaged.

Jimmy King in the U-3 started the heat by leading the field across the start-finish line, but Steve David in the U-6 took it on the back stretch. It appears the new U-6 has more speed coming through the turns, which David is able to sue to slingshot his boat into the straight-aways.

David had started to stretch out his lead when Allen went over and the heat was shut down.

It happened again in Heat 2B. Jean Theoret in the U-37 was leading the pack when he did a 360 and landed on the tail, crashing down hard on the deck right-side up. Theoret was able to shut the engine off and pop the cockpit.

Theroret had about a roostertail lead over Jimmy King in the U-3 when he went airborne after the exit pin of turn two.

Greg Hopp in the U-100 had led the field across the start-finish line, giving up the lead to Jimmy King in the U-3 out of the first turn. Theoret charged past Hopp coming out of turn two and then took the lead from King on the second lap.

Jeff Bernard in the U-5 took the lead from the starting gun and was trying to hold off a charging Dave Villwock in the U-16 when he got caught in Villwock's roostertail going into the far turn. He rode the wash up in the air and blew over.

The race was stopped as rescue crews went out to bring Bernard out of the cockpit and back to shore. Reports were that he was conscious and being checked out.

Track announcer Mark Allen said the boat is designed to ride on top of the water. It doesn't know the difference between the river and the roostertail. When it hit the roostertail, there was enough volume of water to lift the U-5 and it traveled right up the roostertail as if it were skimming over the river. With enough lift and air, the boat blew over.

It turned out that both the U-5 and the U-13 with J. Michael Kelley had jumped the gun and were assessed one lap penalties. At the time of the blow-over, more than half the race had been completed so it was certified as an official race.

When there's an accident on the course, officials review the video to determine what happened and whether any penalties or fines are justified. However, after the initial review, they certified the race and results as official.

Bernard is out of the boat. He is conscious and heading back to shore with the rescue crews.

The U-5 had been assessed a one lap penalty for jumping the gun as was the U-13. That left the U-1 in first and the U-6 in second. The U-25 DNS. Race was stopped when the U-5 blew over when it got up in the roostertail of the U-1.

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